Top Ten Books on Smart Risk Taking

Organisations need to take risks on a daily basis or else they will die soon. The same can be said for people. Like Mark Zuckerberg said,” The biggest risk is not taking any risk”. What is it that stops us from taking risks ? How can we learn to take smart risks ? Executive Coaching can help you become a smart and confident risk taker.

Here are some books on this topic:

  1. Taking Smart Risks: How Sharp Leaders Win When Stakes are High by Doug Sundheim
  2. Your Leadership Edge by Ravinder Tulsiani
  3. Competing for the Future by Gary Hamel
  4. Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  5. The Essentials of Risk Management by Michel Crouhy, Dan Galai, and Robert Mark
  6. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  7. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson
  8. Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude by David Hillson, Ruth Murray-Webster
  9. The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty (Hardcover)  by Sam L. Savage
  10. “Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty – Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise” by Freerick Funston and Stephen Wagner

Bhavna Dalal is an ICF Certified Executive Coach and C.E.O at Talent Power Partners ( www.talentpowerpartners.com). Please reach out to me for more information at bhavnadalal@gmail.com

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